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Bumskipper 1

Album 2005 on Ersatzspieler label
(Dub, Novelty, Poetry, Speech, Comedy, Dialogue, Noise, Freestyle, Field Recording, Avant-garde, Stoner Rock, Art Rock, Future Jazz, Therapy, Hardcore, Lo-Fi, Psychedelic, Ghetto, Alternative Rock, Krautrock, Punk, Political, Rhythmic Noise, Drone, Acousti)

We may never know whether Richard D. James is a genius, or whether he’s just gone off the boil, or whatever. Personally I’m a Selected Ambient Works 2 man. With the Analord series, however, one is forced to accept that he’s ingeniously got shot of a sizable chunk of his backlog of tracks without having the pressure of people scrutinising a new album proper. He may well have made some money out of the enterprise too. Now the last CD-R I did was Giraffe, and I’m quite proud of it still. In fact I’m a little bit worried that I may have peaked with Giraffe, because everything I’ve done since hasn’t really felt like a track on the next album. Admittedly I’ve had a lot of computer voodoo, which for various reasons has resulted in either not being able to use a PC to make music (and relying instead on reel-to-reel tape, ADAT 8-track, and even crap loops on the Line 6 DL4) or making music with a PC but in the sure knowledge that it won’t be for very long. The point is I’ve got tons of stuff but it lacks the sexy pop sheen that characterised my earlier work, perhaps, and so I’ve decided to shamelessly ape our Aphex by releasing it piecemeal. Obviously I haven’t got the cash to present eleven 12” records in a retro culture fetish binder, so the Bumskipper project, as I’m calling it for now, will consist of a series of eleven 3” mini CDs. They play in normal CD players, it’s just that they’re smaller and therefore, possibly, cuter. You can fit 21 minutes of audio on a 3-incher, which is OK for the Um sound on account of the artistic denseness, obviously. I’ll be releasing them over the next few months as the whim takes me, but hopefully on a monthly basis at least. Think of it as being like a magazine or something. Anyway, Bumskipper 1 is available now at £3. I’m kind of hoping that if you visit PayPal at www.paypal.co.uk and tell them you want to give pete.um@ntlworld.com £3+50p(p&p) then that will work but otherwise get in touch at the same address and I’ll tell you how to do it cheque-styles. Or see me at an Um gig or come round my house, innit. Bumskipper 1 Analogue Hope. This is just an Oberheim Matrix 1000 and a Line 6 DL4 Delay modeler getting to know each other. The Devil Chortles At Human Wickedness. OK, in the video for this: The camera pans in slowly during the first section of the tune to reveal the cross section of a house. On the downstairs floor I am seen watching the news. The news is bad, of course. My face is worn with care. Then, during the second section, we see the upstairs floor, where the devil, played by Bobby J (covered in red paint, moist with sweat, and in his pants) is also watching the news. He is chuckling to himself, perhaps a bit like Rod Rippin watching Only Fools And Horses. This Is The Sound Of Lavender. I think this is more DL4 and Dave’s ADAT, possibly? Has a unique smell to me. Batawanaland. This is me trying to make people like Nathan and Charlie laugh. White Smith. Here we see the White Smith at work. The Raven. This bird is mysterious in a BBC kind of way. Oh My Days. The artist finds life tough. Brazil. This is a piece for dancers. The proper, poncey kind who wear vests and flappy trousers. The Sunny Side Of The Moon. See you there! Migrants. Migration moves me greatly. It is a kind of death, but then some say death is a kind of migration. Romantik_1. This is an extract from the massive 40+ minute Romantik reel-to-reel tape, recorded during some voodoo period. I hear a new world.

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